Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible,alt.religion.christian Subject: Re: The jehovah witness nwt "translation" Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:27:08 -0600 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <639ca9d8$0$2259$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 05:27:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="d2ecf279f9db57a3ecf3e5985e9bfed2f945d15a"; logging-data="2843688"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <639ca9d8$0$2259$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:653961 alt.religion.christian:795846 On 12/16/22 11:24, servant wrote: > For example, the very first edition of the KJV printed in 1611 AD, > contained no "J". Not even one! Instead the letter "I" is used for Jew, > Jesus, Joshua, Joanna, John AND the person pronoun "I". Instead these words > were written in 1611 AD as, Iew, Iesus, Ioshua, Ioanna, Iohn. The letter "I" was pronounced the same as the letter "J". In ancient English, Greek, and Hebrew, and many other languages, when the letter "I" precedes a vowel it represents the "J" sound. So your conclusion is wrong. IEW is pronounced JOO. "I" before a vowel sounds like "J". IESUS is pronounced JEE-ZUS. "I" before a vowel sounds like "J". The modern fairy tale about the ancient Hebrew and Greek JOT being a "Y" is bunk. Today they call it Yod or Yad. This is a modern invention. In ancient Greek and Hebrew the letter was pronounced JOT. A JOT before a vowel in ancient Hebrew has a "J" sound. When the English invented the letter "J" they were following the same convention as the Greek and Hebrew. Prior to the letter "J" in English, the letter "I" before a vowel carried the "J" sound. -- Nightbulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch. If tacky red hats annoy Pharisees I want to buy hats for the whole town.